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Show Shark Fishing Is the Business Of Florida Town If you want to learn about shark fishing, Salerno, Fla., is the place to go. Sharking is a growing industry in-dustry there. They don't go after sharks in Salerno for the fun of it. In recent years it has been discovered dis-covered that shark liver is phenomenally phenome-nally rich in vitamin A, and therefore there-fore valuable medicinally, so the primary pri-mary urge of the shark hunters was for the liver. However, uses have been found for other parts of the so-called so-called "tiger of the deep." Hides are made into luxury leather; the flesh gives good steaks if you like shark meat and the "innards" are dried and ground for fodder and fertilizer. fer-tilizer. Shark fins are a delicacy in China. The sharks caught off Salerno and in Hobe sound average 20 feet or more in length. They weigh a ton or more and include such branches of the shark family tree as the mackerel, mack-erel, black leopard, sandshark, hammerhead, ham-merhead, black tip, tiger, lemon and white shark. Shark fishing does not involve the rod-and-reel angling technique. In some parts of the world, the huge fish are harpooned. In Salerno they catch 'em on the assembly line method. A steel chain from 3,000 to 3,500 feet long is strung between buoys at a depth of about 60 feet. Great hooks are attached to the chain at intervals and these hooks are baited with scrap fish. After a sufficient interval the chain is raised by a winch on the fishing boat and the monsters hauled in. Fifty sharks is an average catch. There is a record of 130. i . - N V. 1 "5 ; y V ;4 . : i m i v , ... J L - v A big shark is hauled over the gunwales. A winch lifts the sea beast onto the deck as the average weight is more than a ton. It is necessary to use chain for all the tackle, since the shark's double row of keen teeth would snip through any sort of line or rope. I " - -. -A" A day's haul for one boat. The heap includes lemon shark, tiger shark, hammerhead, and leopard shark. These last are considered the most vicious of the "sea tigers." I V " I r K i Fillets of shark are said to be tastv morsels. The meat has little "fish taste" and there are no small bones to choke on. The most attractive attrac-tive way to cook it, according to the experts, is to dip it in egg and cracker meal, and fry it in deep fat. |